The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend—Here's the Best Way to Watch It
The Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak Sunday night into Monday morning. Here's how to increase your chances of spotting a shooting star.
The Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak Sunday night into Monday morning. Here's how to increase your chances of spotting a shooting star.
There are two transits to see in the night sky this November: One is of a pair of "blinking" stars and the other is of the planet Mercury moving across the sun.
Forty-two years after launching in 1977, Voyager 2 has reached interstellar space, where it will orbit the galaxy for 5 billion years.
The best time to see the Orionids—the meteor shower from Halley's Comet—is today, Monday, October 21.
The next full moon will be extra bright, extra big, and hard to miss. Here’s the best time to look up at October's hunter's moon.
The Draconids and Southern Taurids won’t interfere with your good night’s sleep, and you might even see a fireball.
The meaning of the name "beaver moon" originated with early Americans centuries ago. Here are some more things you should know about the lunar event.
The full moon closest to the autumnal equinox is dubbed a 'harvest moon.' This year, it will also be a rare harvest 'micromoon.'
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine came out as Team Planet Pluto at a recent event, reigniting hopes around the body's planetary status.
NOAA forecasts geomagentic storms for August 31 and September 1, 2019, which means that the northern lights may be visible over Maine, Wisconsin, Michigan, and other U.S. states this weekend.
The gravitational pull of the supermoon will team up with that of the sun on August 30 to create super-charged "king" tides around the world.
August's full moon is called a sturgeon moon. Here's what you need to know to make the most of the celestial event on August 15.
A full sturgeon moon will make 2019's Perseids less brilliant than they've appeared in years past, but if you know when and where to look, you can increase your chances of spotting a shooting star.
After a month of spooky astronomical events, July will close out with a rare black supermoon this Wednesday.
Usually it's all about the Perseids, but this summer, the Delta Aquariids is the meteor shower to catch, thanks to July's "old moon." Here's how to view it.
The bright green light that streaked across skies over Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut the night of July 24 was likely a fireball meteor, experts say.
The half-blood thunder moon—a partial lunar eclipse that coincides with a full moon in July—falls on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.
Saturn reached opposition this month, which means now is the ideal time to see the second-largest planet in our solar system from your backyard.
The best time to see Jupiter in 2019 is early next week—that's when when the gas giant comes closest to Earth and appears its brightest in the night sky.
Recent solar activity could make the northern lights visible at lower latitudes than usual May 15 to May 17.
The good news: The asteroid Apophis isn't going to wipe out life as we know it, so we can sit back, relax, and enjoy the celestial show!
The icy rock planet in the Kuiper Belt has gone 12 years without a name, but now people can cast a vote to give it an official identity. Just not Boaty McBoatface.
The moment astronomy and sci-fi lovers have long awaited is finally here. That's an actual black hole you're looking at.
Capturing an image of the distant, supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy has been compared to “standing in New York and counting the individual dimples on a golf ball in Los Angeles."